Team

Mitchell Family Acupuncture in Berkeley is honored to be a full-service integrative health center, providing community support, education and comprehensive natural health care for women and men. Our practitioner team works together to bring you a personalized approach to medicine to allow your deep health to emerge.

In addition to our practitioner team, we provide a home in Berkeley for associate providers offering Acupuncture, Chinese Medicine, Nutrition and Somatic Psychotherapy. To book an appointment with one of our independent associates, please contact the practitioner directly.

Amy Sierra Bolton Taylor Mitchell, M.S., L.Ac.

Amy Sierra Bolton Taylor Mitchell, M.S., L.Ac., the founder and clinical director of Mitchell Family Acupuncture, is a Licensed Acupuncturist and Clinical Herbalist with her Masters of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine. She practices medicine with joy that is rooted in her own experience of acupuncture and Chinese Medicine and is informed by her over twenty years of study and practice in the world of natural medicine.

Amy was first introduced to Chinese Medicine while in University in northern Italy, while studying Tai Chi. Her discovery and study of Eastern practices and philosophy facilitated both a profound inner opening and a coming home. When she first began studying Chinese Medicine, everything made sense.

Her Northern California roots gave her a strong connection to and trust of nature, place and land. Chinese Medicine is all about a deeper understanding of the cycles of nature and this continues to broaden as she practices this medicine she loves.

She is a strong advocate for integrative medicine and was instrumental in the formation of the premier integrative medical clinic in Northern California, The Integrative Medical Clinic of Santa Rosa. She has also studied yoga and meditation in India and Nepal, assisted in delivering babies and has studied and practiced with two of the foremost fertility specialists in the country, Carol Fong, L.Ac., and Dr. LiFang Liang, L.Ac., and pregnancy and obstetrics from the seminal Raven Lang, L.Ac., who founded the first birth center in North America.

Amy believes deeply in the power of education and has taught and lectured regularly on acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine at Stanford, UC Berkeley and St. Mary’s College, among others. She has also taught for The American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine one of the oldest acupuncture Masters programs in the country, her alma mater and in the community.

Amy lives in the Berkeley Hills surrounded by green leaves with her husband, their two daughters and their kitty, Roo.

Specialty

Women’s HealthHealthy PregnancyPostpartum HealthFertility for women, men and the LGBTQ community

Alison Winters, M.S., L.Ac.

Alison’s mission is to treat the whole person, not just the discomfort or the illness, using Acupuncture, Chinese Medicine, Nutritional Counseling and Reiki. She provides an open, safe, gentle & nurturing environment for each patient to relax and let the body, mind and spirit heal.

Alison Winters earned her Master’s Degree in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, San Francisco in December 2008. She is licensed by the California Board of Registration in Medicine to practice acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine and holds a Diplomate in Oriental Medicine from the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM).

While at ACTCM, Alison interned at both its Community Clinic and Auricular Clinic and also at California Pacific Medical Center’s Stroke Project and Physical Therapy Center, at Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic and Dr. Lifang Liang’s Fertility Clinic. She was also a Teaching Assistant for Yefim Gamgoneishvili, L.Ac Sports’ Medicine class, specializing in pain management.

In China Alison studied with Dr. Wang Ju-Yi, one of modern China’s most respected scholars, teachers and practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine. Here she learned his theory of channel palpation using mainly distal points, giving her a deeper understanding of the interrelationship between organ and channel theory and leading to more precise diagnoses and more tangible clinical results.

Alison holds a Bachelor of Science in Business and Psychology from Northeastern University in Boston, graduating Magna Cum Laude. She is a Reiki Master of the Usui Shiki Ryoho tradition and has traveled throughout Peru studying Incan Medicine.

Alison has had extensive experience working in Community Acupuncture, having worked at the Cambridge Community Clinic, Acupuncture Together in Cambridge, MA for three years treating acute and chronic pain, digestive issues, allergies, infertility, women’s issues, pregnancy, stress, anxiety, fatigue and depression. In 2013 Alison opened a new Community Clinic in Salem MA where she treated patients with similar issues.

Alison is currently training to be a doula, having begun her studies at the non-profit, village-based organization Bumi Sehat Foundation in Bali where she assisted in live births and performed acupuncture on the newborns.

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Lauren Kaneko-Jones, M.S., L.Ac. is a Licensed Acupuncturist and herbalist in California and Nationally. She has a BA in communications and an MS in Acupuncture and Oriental medicine Lauren provides information and support for life’s seasons of change. Her work as an acupuncturist greatly influences the educational material she puts into the world. She sees that clients need support with a re-igniting self-love and connection. We do this work together. With tools to align with the season’s lifestyle, nutrition and reflection we take into account the season of the year and the season of your life.

Each acupuncture or coaching session is full to the brim with an open-hearted approach. The workshops and lessons she has written are created to help you attune to yourself and the world around you. Our goal is that this work leaves you promotes you feeling more connected to yourself.

Specialty

Women's HealthHealthy PregnancySupported PostpartumEmotional & Spiritual health through the hard seasons: dealing with the grief of a loved one, entering a new phase of life – career, motherhood. Recovering from or healing through physical health. Career transition. Children & Family HealthArtists healthHealer health

Favorites

Cooking old favoritesLearning new recipesWritingTeachingLearningTea with loved onesThe perfect chocolate chip cookieHiking with her dogAdventuring with her husbandThe sun setting on an amazing day being outside

Associate | Jean Lusson, M.S., L.Ac.

Jean’s studies in TCM began seventeen years ago at The Acupressure Institute, in Berkeley. There she became inspired to pursue a more intensive educational path, a Masters Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine at Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College (AIMC), in Berkeley.

Her clinical internship included service at Lifelong Medical West Berkeley Family Practice. She enjoys helping patients with pain management, women’s health, menopause, migraines, anxiety, and dermatology.

She has a special certification in facial rejuvenation acupuncture. She has also studied Medical Qigong, holistic nutrition, Shiatsu, and Japanese acupuncture techniques.

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Associate | Daniel Paige, M.S., L.Ac.

Daniel draws on his own background, bringing deep empathy to his work, along with his strong training, skill and experience of over 15 years, in order to give the best care to every individual. He discovered TCM as many people do: it helped him with his own health issues. After a few severe episodes of illness during his twenties, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a form of cancer.

He can happily share that he is healthy and cancer-free many years later. He credits Acupuncture and Chinese herbs for supporting him physically and emotionally through the chemotherapy and radiation cancer treatments, for helping to balance and build strength after his illness, and for helping him to thrive ever since.

He holds a Masters of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine from The American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco, CA. He also studied extensively with Beverly Burns M.S., L.Ac., a well-known leader in the field of TCM, who is currently a staff member at UCSF’s Osher Center for Complementary Medicine in San Francisco.

He is also a practicing artist and musician and grew up in Philadelphia, PA, and currently lives in Albany CA with his wife and daughter.

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Renée has been attending births for over ten years. After many years of doula births and training, she licensed in 2014. Since then she worked as a staff midwife at a busy birth center for a year before returning full time to home birth in 2016. She's also had the privilege of attending births in rural Iowa and Colorado with midwives who serve Amish and Mennonite families. She is a Certified Lactation Educator. She has a BA in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Renée’s commitment to compassionate maternity care was inspired by her grandfather, a practicing doctor until his late 80s, when he volunteered at a hospice run by nuns. Hearing his stories, following him on rounds, and seeing the close relationships that often grew between him and his patients taught her that good medicine has to include “being there.”

She loves to dance, hike, and swim in every lake, river and ocean she can find. In July of this year she solo hiked 180 miles of the John Muir Trail. She's completing a certificate in Creative Writing/Poetry at Berkeley City College when she’s not catching babies and has been nurturing her meditation practice for six years.

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Amy Mitchell is an incredible practitioner. I have been seeing her for over a decade, and still continue to receive so many benefits every time I go. I have also referred many, many women to her, as I work with pregnant and new moms, and everyone I know of has had a very positive experience. “

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J.P.

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In our very first session together, Alison listened with great care and was able to really tune into what my body needed. She gave me an incredibly powerful treatment that left me feeling deeply nourished, on all levels of me being.
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B.D.

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Amy is warm and open and loving and, above all, simply amazing at what she does. Please, please, particularly you pregnant mamas, do yourself and your baby a huge favor and see Amy.
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P.W.C.

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Alison has a gift for getting to the core of any health issue I have thrown her way! She has amazing analytical and intuitive skills and her herbal and nutritional knowledge have been a great asset in maximizing my healing. I use her when I have health issues or when I just need to de-stress.
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